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Reflection Paper On Preparation Of A Speech

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In the preparation of the speech, I spent a lot of time doing research and looking at different book on Osaka, Japan. I looked at a lot of different websites and other sources, and I made a whole bunch of notes and then worked them into my speech. In working on the speech I gathered a lot of information which I didn’t use and that was not helpful to my speech. One thing I did in my preparation of my speech, which I should not do again, was I made a rough draft of my speech and then I had a final draft that was on a different document. I should have just made the corrections on the rough draft I had instead of having two different drafts of my speech. The reason why I don’t think I will be doing this is, because I printed my rough draft and turned it in and I did not realize it wasn’t the right draft until after I was already in class. So in the next speech, I hope to only have one draft and do the same amount of research, but have my research be more specifically done. …show more content…

The week of the actual speech I was sick and so things did not go as planned. The notes I made that had what I was going to say and notes on which slide was next, I had forgot them when I came to class. During the practice time I recorded and timed myself, but what I think I should have done was present the speech in front of other people. The most problems I see when I do my speech is that my nerves get a hold of me and makes my voice shake. In the practicing for the speech, I need to perform the speech in front of other

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